To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Safe Catch, Sausalito, California. Childhood friends Sean and Bryan love tuna. So they started Safe Catch with the goal of providing safe seafood. “We want everyone to feel great about eating tuna. We invented a new technology to test every fish for mercury. We only source sustainably caught wild tuna and each fish […]
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Courtesy of Jia H. Jung, U.S. Masters Swimming’s Swimmer Magazine. The first Olympic medalist in Ireland received his inspiration from open water swimming. John “Jack” Butler Yeats drew an oil painting of the 1923 Liffey Swim, a 2.4 km river swim that started in 1920 in Dublin, Ireland. His painting, called Swimming, won the silver
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Courtesy of Swim Across America. Registrations to Swim Across America events are now open on its new website here.
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Courtesy of Guila Muir, Say Yes to Life Swims and Western Washington Open Water Swimmers. A panel discussion on Women in the Open Water will be held on March 24th at the C & P Coffee Company in Seattle, Washington. Guila Muir explains, “Some amazing women swimmers in the Northwest made news and set records
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice Swimming is defined by the International Ice Swimming Association as swimming in water 5.00°C (41.00°F) or less. Given its preference for much colder water than most humans can tolerate, and the fact that the average temperature of the ocean surface waters is about 17°C (62.6°F)*, it is interesting
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Courtesy of The Weekend Sailor to be shown at the International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco in March 2017. The Weekend Sailor is a feature documentary about the unexpected victory of the Mexican yacht Sayula II in the first crewed sailing race around the world in 1974. In 1973, the United Kingdom organized the
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Courtesy of the International Ocean Film Festival 2017 Festival. The mission of the International Ocean Film Festival is to inspire people to appreciate and care for the ocean by revealing its wonders through independent films. Every year in northern California, the Festival features a four-day ocean engagement event for audiences from around the world. Though
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Photo courtesy of Hardcastle Film and Photo and APEX Coaching, Hardcastle Film and Photo, Boulder, Colorado. Grant Holicky arguably has the greatest scope of athletes of anyone on the USA Swimming national coaching staff. A retired professional triathlete, he coaches many successful cyclocrossers from the amateur to elite professional level as well as triathletes, cyclists,
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Courtesy of www.hd-production.at at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. The surface water temperature was measured at 0.9°C with the deeper water measured at 3.7°C in the midst of air temperatures that dipped to -11°C during the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. “The swimmers got
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